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She will throw me over, says she, unless the young people make friends again. A pretty state of things! Our expenses here will be trebled!" "Oh, as for that!" said the Baron, on hearing of his daughter's strong measures, "I will have no nonsense of that kind." "Very well," said Valerie. "And now for the next thing. What about Coquet's place?"
In Paris each ministry is a little town by itself, whence women are banished; but there is just as much detraction and scandal as though the feminine population were admitted there. At the end of three years, Monsieur Marneffe's position was perfectly clear and open to the day, and in every room one and another asked, "Is Marneffe to be, or not to be, Coquet's successor?"
If you want to keep your place, you must make a bed for yourself, and instead of asking the Marshal to give Coquet's place to Marneffe, in your place I would beg him to use his influence to reserve a seat for me on the General Council of State; there you may die in peace, and, like the beaver, abandon all else to the pursuers." "What, do you think the Marshal would forget "
Marneffe, who hoped to get Coquet's place, was to entertain him and the virtuous Madame Coquet, and Valerie hoped to persuade Hulot, that very evening, to consider the head-clerk's resignation. Lisbeth dressed to go to the Baroness, with whom she was to dine. "You will come back in time to make tea for us, my Betty?" said Valerie. "I hope so." "You hope so why?
She will throw me over, says she, unless the young people make friends again. A pretty state of things! Our expenses here will be trebled!" "Oh, as for that!" said the Baron, on hearing of his daughter's strong measures, "I will have no nonsense of that kind." "Very well," said Valerie. "And now for the next thing. What about Coquet's place?"
By to-morrow I must be Monsieur Coquet's successor and see my name on the list for promotion in the Legion of Honor at the July fetes, or else the documentary evidence and my charge against you will be laid before the Bench. I am not so hard to deal with after all, you see." "Bless me, and such a pretty woman!" said the Justice of the Peace to the police constable.
When he asked wherein the good luck consisted, he was shown a paragraph in another local journal which stated that "The steamship 'Coquet' arrived at Genoa, sixteen days overdue. Boats gone, port bulwark gone, compasses gone, and two men lost overboard." The lesson to be learned from the "Coquet's" escape is simple.
Brightly-painted wooden shelves make patches of colour on the white walls; the furniture is rustic; and the curtains of white muslin with mauve spots complete the frank and artless harmony of the room. How little this was to be expected from Mlle. Coquet's shop! Then, on Rose's table, the books I gave her fill the place of honour.
"He is employed in your department in the War Office, under Monsieur Lebrun, in Monsieur Coquet's room," said she with a smile. "I am quite disposed, Madame Madame ?" "Madame Marneffe." "Dear little Madame Marneffe, to do injustice for your sake. I have a cousin living in your house; I will go to see her one day soon as soon as possible; bring your petition to me in her rooms."
By to-morrow I must be Monsieur Coquet's successor and see my name on the list for promotion in the Legion of Honor at the July fetes, or else the documentary evidence and my charge against you will be laid before the Bench. I am not so hard to deal with after all, you see." "Bless me, and such a pretty woman!" said the Justice of the Peace to the police constable.
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